Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final move to swing the pendulum back to the pitcher would be to abolish the oft-misunderstood infield fly rule. I realize there are reasons why it's there, but if it were gone it would make the game that much more interesting, at times comically so. Think about...
...part and parcel of the pendulum swing we've been noticing in the past couple of years away from the humanities and towards the more quantitative fields," says Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, who is also a professor of English and American literature and language...
...simply wrong to make money by playing to people's worst instincts. This does not mean that we should ignore or gloss over our collective problems and concerns, or seek a return to the repressive innocence embodied by the 1950s. But neither should we let the pendulum swing entirely in the other direction to a state of moral anarchy in which nothing, including human life, has inherent value...
...only "dumb" terminals on their desktops, with little or no memory or processing power. Today the operative paradigm is the so-called client-server model, where data may be stored on big file servers but the software runs on real, full-powered desktop computers. Over the years, the pendulum swings back and forth between the decentralized desktop and the centralized machine. In this instance, the idea of a $500 computer is not so new after...
...engendered under the fee-for-service approach, in which doctors have an interest in doing everything their patients might require, and possibly more than that, provided an insurer is paying the tab. But Himmelstein and other physicians believe the bottom-line philosophy of for-profit HMOs has pushed the pendulum too far in the opposite direction...